Many Parisians and tourists are familiar with his sculpture "Le Kiosque des noctambules", which overlooks the Palais-Royal metro station in Paris. The sculptor Jean-Michel Othoniel regularly invites himself to public spaces with a mission: "to bring the marvellous back into the city". A mission that "today, with the current events, takes on an even greater meaning", says the artist, who opened the doors of his studio in Montreuil, on the outskirts of Paris, to AFP. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES